Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M228509

E/ct

RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

MARK C. DILLON

RUTH C. BALKIN

LEONARD B. AUSTIN, JJ.

2016-10266 In the Matter of Jonathan P. Flom, admitted as Jonathan Paltiel Flom, an attorney and counselor-at-law. Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts, petitioner; Jonathan P. Flom, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2102416)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

By affirmation dated September 29, 2016, on notice to the respondent, the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts advised the Court that, on June 24, 2016, the respondent was convicted, upon a jury verdict, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Hon. Roslynn R. Mauskopf), of laundering of monetary instruments, in violation of 18 USC § 1956(a)(3). The respondent has not yet been sentenced. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on March 18, 1987.

Now, on the Court's own motion and the affirmation dated September 29, 2016, it is

ORDERED that the respondent, Jonathan P. Flom, admitted as Jonathan Paltiel Flom, is immediately suspended from the practice of law pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4)(f) as a result of his conviction of a serious crime, continuing until further order of the Court; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent, Jonathan P. Flom, admitted as Jonathan Paltiel Flom, shall promptly comply with this Court's rules governing the conduct of disbarred or suspended attorneys (see 22 NYCRR 1240.15); and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, during the period of suspension and until further order of this Court, the respondent, Jonathan P. Flom, admitted as Jonathan Paltiel Flom, is commanded to desist and refrain from (1) practicing law in any form, either as principal or agent, clerk, or employee of another, (2) appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission, or other public authority, (3) giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent Jonathan P. Flom, admitted as Jonathan Paltiel Flom, is directed to promptly advise the Court upon being sentenced (see Matter of Delaney, 87 NY2d 508).

ENG, P.J., RIVERA, DILLON, BALKIN, and AUSTIN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court